ultimate
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EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Medieval Latin ultimatus (“furthest, last”), past participle of Latin ultimare (“to come to an end”), from ultimus (“last, final”). See ultra-.
AdjectiveEdit
ultimate (not comparable)
- Final; last in a series.
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1677, Robert Plot, “Of the Heavens and Air”, in The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England[1], page 15:
- […] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]
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- (of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
- Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- the ultimate pleasure
- the ultimate disappointment
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
- Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
- That will happen at some time; eventual.
- Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
- Coleridge
- those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
- Coleridge
- Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
- an ultimate constituent of matter
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AntonymsEdit
- (w.r.t. causes): proximate
Derived termsEdit
Coordinate termsEdit
- (adjectives denoting syllables): penultimate (last but one), antepenultimate (last but two), preantepenultimate (last but three), propreantepenultimate (last but four)
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
final; last in a series
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last in a word or other utterance
greatest or maximum
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most distant
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eventual
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NounEdit
ultimate (plural ultimates)
- The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
- The final or most distant point; the conclusion
- The greatest extremity; the maximum
- (uncountable) A non-contact competitive team sport played with a 175 gram flying disc, the object of which is to score points by passing the disc to a player in the opposing end zone.
Ultimate (sport) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
TranslationsEdit
ultimate frisbee — see ultimate frisbee
VerbEdit
ultimate (third-person singular simple present ultimates, present participle ultimating, simple past and past participle ultimated)
- (transitive, archaic) To finish; to complete.
- 1869, The New-Jerusalem Magazine (volume 41, page 36)
- These measures have been carried forward with a zeal and unanimity that warrant the hope we entertain, of ultimating the plans in respect to our Temple, before the next meeting of the Maryland Association.
- 1869, The New-Jerusalem Magazine (volume 41, page 36)
Further readingEdit
- ultimate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- ultimate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ultimate
- ultimate frisbee (game)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of ultimate (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | ultimate | ultimatet | |
| genitive | ultimaten | ultimatejen | |
| partitive | ultimatea | ultimateja | |
| illative | ultimateen | ultimateihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | ultimate | ultimatet | |
| accusative | nom. | ultimate | ultimatet |
| gen. | ultimaten | ||
| genitive | ultimaten | ultimatejen ultimateinrare |
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| partitive | ultimatea | ultimateja | |
| inessive | ultimatessa | ultimateissa | |
| elative | ultimatesta | ultimateista | |
| illative | ultimateen | ultimateihin | |
| adessive | ultimatella | ultimateilla | |
| ablative | ultimatelta | ultimateilta | |
| allative | ultimatelle | ultimateille | |
| essive | ultimatena | ultimateina | |
| translative | ultimateksi | ultimateiksi | |
| instructive | — | ultimatein | |
| abessive | ultimatetta | ultimateitta | |
| comitative | — | ultimateineen | |
ItalianEdit
VerbEdit
ultimate
- second-person plural present indicative of ultimare
- second-person plural imperative of ultimare
- feminine plural of ultimato